US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 30 for "Automated wellhead monitoring using imaging and computer vision" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,795, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Automated wellhead monitoring using imaging and computer vision" was invented by Weichang Li (Katy, Texas), Yong Ma (Katy, Texas), Damian Pablo San Roman Alerigi (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Max Deffenbaugh (Fulshear, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for automated wellhead monitoring using imaging and computer vision is described. The method includes establishing a baseline for a wellhead using image dimension and perspective calibration. The method also includes constructing at least one computer vision model ...